The City of Mobile uses their creeks as garbage chutes to pollute shorelines.
Shorelines are very important places for wildlife. Just not in the City of Mobile.
The City of Mobile uses their creeks as garbage chutes to pollute shorelines.
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Letisha Bush with FOX10 TV did a news report (see above story) about Dog River's Trash Problems Continuing. Well, yeah. As long as the City has no one removing the garbage from Dog River, the garbage will continue to be a problem. The question is, why doesn't ADEM advise the City to remove the garbage from Dog River? Why doesn't John Bell (Public Works Director) have any public workers out removing the garbage?
The garbage is not going to magically disappear - someone has to remove it. The ignoramuses at the City are making it clear that they are not going to remove the trash that their storm water system deposits in Dog River. Someone should sue the City of Mobile for violating the Clean Water Act. Litter Love
I’ve been litter’n all day, Trash is fly'n past da wheel. There is poison in my head, Causin me to pollute Mobeel. My trashy mind be a callin’, Says: "Litterers have no fear." Get that wrapper off the floor, And toss out that empty beer. When da trash is soar'n, And the plastic be fly'n, There is nothin stopping, Fill'n ditches from above. Don’t need no stink'n dumpster at all. Keep trash'n the land with plastic galore. Pollute your waters while dumb leaders snore. The plastic you toss on the ground today, Will be there for your kin five centuries away. Welcome to Mayor Sam Jones' City of Mobile - the City that Erin Burnett of CNN did not see. Click on a thumbnail image to bring up the Photo Gallery with Commentary. If you think there is no consequence to littering, watch this short video. Dog River is the City of Mobile's garbage chute. Since the City of Mobile employs no one to remove trash after rain propels it through their storm water ditches, City officials obviously don't care about the Federal Clean Water Act. Not even after two law suits. The City of Mobile didn't have a single person out removing their City spawned garbage, again. The City of Mobile puts about 177 public works people out at each Mardi Gras parade. The City of Mobile put out exactly ZERO public works people to clean up after a rain generated litter parade. That is about as irresponsible as you can get. But, that is just my opinion. What do you think? Do you care if garbage rots in Mobile's waterways or not? Click on any thumbnail for a large photo gallery view. Although not a gully washer there was about 1.5 inches of rain as a fast moving cold front moved through this morning. It did generate some water in the ditches so I did a site visit to the new Eslava Creek Litter Trap which yielded some interesting observations. There were 4 (FOUR) City of Mobile vehicles in the area, one stopping in the middle of the bridge to get out and look at the Litter Trap. I wonder how much gas money that wasted considering none of them actually did anything.
First odd thing - something was bubbling to the surface like blobs of oil behind the litter trap. They probably put grease on the unit so it can rise and fall as the water levels change. Second odd thing was more trash went underneath the trap and continued on downstream as compared to the amount of trash the trap actually captured. That would be less than a 50% capture rate based on my short observation. A bamboo tree downstream of the litter trap caught more trash than the Litter Trap. When the next heavy rain comes along, all that garbage by the bamboo tree will be carried on down into Dog River because the City still does not have a single person removing garbage from its creeks and rivers. The costly Litter Trap removed 1-2 bags of garbage today matching what one laborer could do in an hour. The City of Mobile now has to use an expensive crane, a crew to get the crane there, man hours to do the work to remove the garbage from the Litter Trap and man hours to haul off the garbage. The cost to remove those 2 bags of garbage using Dog River Clearwater Revival's demanded Litter Trap is enormous and Eslava Creek is still sending garbage downstream. The reality of garbage in the water is - as long as no one is removing it, the garbage will stay trapped in the tidal zone until a gully washer sends it downstream. Based on today's kayak trip there is no change in Eslava Creek, Bolton Branch, nor Dog River - the garbage is still there. Here are some photos taken today. Over the past year there has been plenty of documentation of streams of garbage entering Eslava Creek severely polluting Dog River downstream. Where does it all come from? Here is one example: The vacant lot across from Wal-mart that a development company is holding onto, is littered with trash. City of Mobile Parcel Number: R022806244000002.003 Owner: Delaney Development, Inc Mobile Municipal Tax Paid: $2,150.12 Walmart has money. The City has money. The property owner is responsible by city code to keep their right of way free of litter. Yet here is all this garbage, some of it already poised to go down into a drainage inlet that leads to Eslava Creek a few hundred feet away. Solution: Shut down the road in front of this property until the garbage is removed. If Wal-mart wants to stay in business, they will have an employee out there removing their Wal-mart trash to get the road opened quickly. Use video cameras to document where the litter is coming from and then hold the guilty party accountable to keep the property clean for the next year. |
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